nitrogen or electric cryotherapy?
Wasted Money: These unfortunate customers did not experience a true cryotherapy session due to their clothes and the lack of a cryogenic temperature below -160°F.
How Should You Invest in Cryotherapy?
Cryotherapy has two options: nitrogen and electric. An electric-powered chamber chills the air like a super-refrigerator using man-made chemicals. A liquid nitrogen powered chamber chills the air using naturally super-cold liquid nitrogen. Which is better? More and more professional athletes and trainers are selling their electric chambers for more powerful liquid nitrogen cryosaunas. What caused the shift in the cryotherapy market? The answer is simple: electric cryotherapy was discovered to barely be cryotherapy at all.
Don't Destroy the Environment!
Do you have a wellness center or day spa? Most of your clients care deeply about the green-environment movement. Nitrogen cryosaunas use naturally occurring nitrogen that has no impact on the ozone layer. Electric cryo chambers use EPA regulated coolants that destroy the ozone layer slowly and surely. Many wellness centers have switched to nitrogen chambers in their desire to leave a smaller carbon footprint on our planet and attract environmentally conscious customers.
Women Prefer Cryosaunas
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Most women are not comfortable being watched in their underwear or bikini.
Women customers routinely prefer cryosaunas because they don't have to be seen in their underwear. A cryosauna keeps the person completely covered and their body out of sight. Electric chambers have large windows for the operator to watch. Added to this is the frequent embarrassment of having to disrobe with other people in their underwear and endure the session with total strangers. To avoid this embarrassment some people will still wear clothing that actually prevents large areas of the skin from cooling.
Total Costs are Huge
Electric cryotherapy chambers simply cost more. Here are two examples of how much the prices can vary.
US Cryotherapy’s C1 Unit: $170,000.
Germany’s Lifecube: $109,000.
Furthermore there are hidden costs that may surprise the small business owner:
Maintenance and Monitoring Fees: US Cryotherapy is a monthly $800.00 fee.
Efficiency: walk-ins require a pre-cool period that consumes a huge amount of power. Some owners will put many people in at once to defray the costs. However, this poses comfort issues for most people.
Chemical Refrigerant is highly toxic, flammable, and requires special permits and insurance in case there is a leak. Despite what the salesmen say it is still a dangerous piece of equipment. These products are industrial-level toxic.
EPA permits may be required and can be revoked after you are in business.
Space requirements: electric chambers need more space and require a larger area. This adds up in lease costs year by year which eat away at your profits.